Re: EOF - was (Cocoa Books (was New to Cocoa) )
Re: EOF - was (Cocoa Books (was New to Cocoa) )
- Subject: Re: EOF - was (Cocoa Books (was New to Cocoa) )
- From: Kevin Callahan <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:11:50 -0700
Is there really no chance in hell that Apple will bring EOF/ObjC back
to the platform?
Kevin
On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 03:06 AM, Simon Stapleton wrote:
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> Subject: Re: Cocoa Books (was New to Cocoa)
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> Cc: email@hidden
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> To: Jim Menard <email@hidden>
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> From: Greg Hulands <email@hidden>
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> On Sunday, October 13, 2002, at 11:17 AM, Jim Menard wrote:
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>> Kevin Callahan writes:
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>>> On Saturday, October 12, 2002, at 05:24 PM, Brian E. Howard wrote:
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>>>> And bring back EOF for Cocoa. . . .
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>>> EOF ObjC/Cocoa is number one on my list. What a crying shame it's
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>>> gone.
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>> How hard would it be to reverse-engineer EOF? I only looked at it
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>> briefly
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>> when it first came out. Does anyone have the original documentation?
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> I Started to make my own from the specification, but changed it from
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> EO
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> prefix to PO for persistence as it seems when people associate apple
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> and enterprise they seem to shudder and run for the hills. I have not
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> done much on it lately due to work commitments and other pet projects,
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> but I have done approx 25 percent of the frameworks, and 63 percent of
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> a modeller application. I hope to get around to completing it in the
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> new year - (only 8 weeks away).
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> Greg
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I too (one of the many) have a half-written persistence layer laying
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around on my hard drive. I started writing it for a project that got
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canned but absolutely couldn't have GPL code (thus negating the
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possibility of using the GNUStep db-library). The _really_ stupid
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thing about this is that one of the intended targets for the app was
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GNUStep...
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I'd suggest if people need EOF (and they do!), spending a bit of time
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on the GNUStep stuff. I can't at the moment, as I'm tied up with
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other stuff, but I fully intend to later when I'm a bit more free.
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Simon
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